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person_profile-Howard Duff

Howard Duff Died at age: 76

Actor | Producer

Fullname:

Howard Duff

Date of Birth:

Nov 24, 1913

Country of birth:

U.S.

Died:

Jul 08, 1990

Biography of

Howard Duff

    Howard Green Duff (November 24, 1913 – July 8, 1990) was an American actor of film, television, stage, and radio.

    Duff was born in Charleston, Washington, now a part of Bremerton. He graduated from Roosevelt High School in Seattle in 1932 where he began acting in school plays only after he was cut from the basketball team. His first film role was as an inmate in Brute Force. His other movies include The Naked City (1948), All My Sons (1948), Calamity Jane and Sam Bass (1949), Panic in the City (1968), In Search of America (1971), A Wedding (1978) and No Way Out (1987).

    He appeared in a number of films with his first wife, actress/director Ida Lupino. One of Duff's later performances was as Dustin Hoffman's attorney in the Academy Award-winning Kramer vs. Kramer (1979).

    On radio, Duff played Dashiell Hammett's private eye Sam Spade from 1946–1950, starring in The Adventures of Sam Spade on three different networks - ABC, CBS and NBC. In 1951 Steve Dunne took over the role of Sam Spade. Duff also appeared in an episode of Climax! entitled Escape From Fear in 1955.

    On television, Duff appeared with his then wife Ida Lupino in the CBS comedy Mr. Adams and Eve from January 1957 through September 1958, in which they played husband and wife film stars named Howard Adams and Eve Drake. He played the young Samuel Langhorne Clemens, in his early life in the West as a satirical and crusading journalist, in the TV series Bonanza ("Enter Mark Twain," season 1, episode 5, 1959). In 1960 he played the male main character in The Twilight Zone episode "A World of Difference" as Arthur Curtis/Jerry Raigan. From October 1960 through April 1961, Duff played Willie Dante, owner of the San Francisco nightclub, Dante's Inferno, in the NBC adventure/drama series Dante. In 1964, Duff guest starred as Harold Baker on the episode "Prodigy" of NBC's medical drama about psychiatry The Eleventh Hour, starring Jack Ging and Ralph Bellamy. In 1990, he guest starred on an episode of The Golden Girls (episode: The Mangiacavallo Curse Makes a Lousy Wedding Present).

    From September 1966 through January 1969, Duff portrayed Detective Sergeant Sam Stone in the ABC police drama Felony Squad with costar Dennis Cole. In the 1980s, he appeared on dramas such as NBC's Flamingo Road and Knots Landing, and Dallas, both on CBS.

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Filmography of

Howard Duff

Found 56 Movies in total

Los Angeles Plays Itself

Dave Pomeroy in Panic in the City (archive footage) ( Actor )

... 2004

Too Much Sun

O.M. ( Actor )

... 1990

Settle the Score

Cy Whately ( Actor )

... 1989

No Way Out

Senator William 'Billy' Duvall ( Actor )

... 1987

Roses Are for the Rich

Denton ( Actor )

... 1987

Monster in the Closet

Father Martin Finnegan ( Actor )

... 1986

Love on the Run

Lionel Rockland ( Actor )

... 1985

This Girl For Hire

Wolfe Macready ( Actor )

... 1983

The Wild Women of Chastity Gulch

Col. Samuel Isaacs ( Actor )

... 1982

Lily for President?

General ( Actor )

... 1982

Double Negative

Lester Harlen ( Actor )

... 1980

Flamingo Road

Sheriff Titus Semple ( Actor )

... 1980

Valentine Magic on Love Island

A.J. Morgan ( Actor )

... 1980

Kramer vs. Kramer

John Shaunessy ( Actor )

... 1979

Battered

Bill Thompson ( Actor )

... 1978

A Wedding

Dr. Jules Meecham ( Actor )

... 1978

Ski Lift to Death

Ben Forbes ( Actor )

... 1978

Actor

Winfield Sheehan ( Actor )

... 1978

In the Glitter Palace

Raymond Dawson Travers ( Actor )

... 1977

The Late Show

Harry Regan ( Actor )

... 1977

Tight as a Drum

Hollister ( Actor )

... 1974

Snatched

Duncan Wood ( Actor )

... 1973

The Heist

Lieutenant Nicholson ( Actor )

... 1972

A Little Game

Dunlap ( Actor )

... 1971

In Search of America

Ray Chandler ( Actor )

... 1971

The D.A.: Murder One

Lynn D. Compton ( Actor )

... 1969

Panic in the City

Dave Pomeroy ( Actor )

... 1968

Calhoun

Sid Rayner ( Actor )

... 1964

War Gods of Babylon

Sardanapolo ( Actor )

... 1962

Boys' Night Out

Doug Jackson ( Actor )

... 1962

Sierra Stranger

Jess Collins ( Actor )

... 1957

While the City Sleeps

Lt. Burt Kaufman ( Actor )

... 1956

The Broken Star

Thornton W. Wills ( Actor )

... 1956

Blackjack Ketchum Desperado

Tom "Blackjack" Ketchum ( Actor )

... 1956

Flame of the Islands

Doug Duryea ( Actor )

... 1955

Women's Prison

Dr. Crane ( Actor )

... 1955

The Yellow Mountain

Pete Menlo ( Actor )

... 1954

Private Hell 36

Police Sgt. Jack Farnham ( Actor )

... 1954

Tanganyika

Dan Harder ( Actor )

... 1954

Jennifer

Jim Hollis ( Actor )

... 1953

Spaceways

Dr. Stephen Mitchell ( Actor )

... 1953

Roar of the Crowd

Johnny Tracy ( Actor )

... 1953

Models Inc.

Lennie Stone ( Actor )

... 1952

Steel Town

Jim Denko ( Actor )

... 1952

The Lady from Texas

Dan Mason ( Actor )

... 1951

Shakedown

Jack Early ( Actor )

... 1950

Spy Hunt

Steve Quain ( Actor )

... 1950

Woman in Hiding

Keith Ramsey ( Actor )

... 1950

Calamity Jane and Sam Bass

Sam Bass ( Actor )

... 1949

Illegal Entry

Bert Powers ( Actor )

... 1949

Red Canyon

Lin Sloane ( Actor )

... 1949

Johnny Stool Pigeon

George Morton ( Actor )

... 1949

All My Sons

George Deever ( Actor )

... 1948

The Naked City

Frank Niles ( Actor )

... 1948

Brute Force

Robert 'Soldier' Becker ( Actor )

... 1947

Know Your Enemy: Japan

Narrator ( Actor )

... 1945